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Don’t be evil.

Happy new year.

The 9th of January, it will be my 2nd year anniversary at OCI. Before that, I had a startup called Shoptimix. @pmartinenza joined us and helped us build our Android app. While he was working with us for two years (we sweat a lot of code together), he was growing his indy Android success story. He has been building an app to give underground, bus and train indications in Madrid for more than ten years. No venture capital, no investment. Sweat and blood. And he was crushing it. With gazillion daily users and a healthy income coming from ads.

I often joked, Pablo was the Android success story poster guy. Actually, he was the only guy I knew who was making money as an indy developer. Not someone developing apps for others. But someone developing his own apps and creating a business around it. Utility apps, no games tricking people to buy in-app purchases. Honestly, if he had been invited to a Google IO, I would have not been surprised. He was employing 5 persons already. He should have been a guy Google promoted, an inspiration to developers. Instead, Google crushed his business on Christmas Eve. Without prior notice, without human intervention, a cold, maybe automatic, email.

Read the link below. If you can raise awerness of his story or share this story with someone inside Google, I thank you in advanced. You will be helping a friend. You will be helping a fellow developer.

Sergio del Amo

Conferences & Events

We are looking for talks around the conference topic. Building products with JVM technologies. In particular, we are looking for talks about Microservices, Cloud, JVM Frameworks, Android, JVM Languages and ecosystem tools.

News

December 24th. Received Google Play account termination email. It mentions it is due to prior violations of “associated accounts” outlined in previous emails.
Never received any communication prior the termination regarding any infringement not solved or previous emails regarding to an “associated account”.

December 24th. I appealed for human assistance by suggested text form because Google Play lacks of a proper Developer Customer service by phone or assigned account manager.

December 25th. I received 24 hours exactly after the termination communication an email telling me that my appeal has been rejected. (Most probably rejected by a bot)

Result: A ten years long Android career and a successful start-up killed for Christmas.

Micronaut

Writing functional tests with Micronaut is such a joy thanks to its fast startup time. Join me to learn several tricks and conventions that we have adopted while developing the framework’s tests. Learn about bean replacement, test classpath management, security testing etc.

If you think about Java applications, there’s this reliance on a container for a lot of features. With Micronaut, a lot of those features are compiled at runtime, so that container requirement goes away. It makes it a whole lot easier to test your application.”

Personally, I share this feeling. In today’s JVM world with easy deployment of FAT JARs, I don’t think containers are as necessary as in other ecosystems.

Gradle

The Gradle build tool has been an integral part of my developer career (both closed and open source) as you may have guessed by the content found in this blog. I’ve been an avid user of Gradle since the early days (my first build was made with Gradle 0.4) which means I’ve seen the tool grow to its current state as an outsider, I’m delighted and excited to helping steer its growth from the inside. I look forward to continue engaging the broad Gradle community and beyond.